Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-29
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

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the national capitol.
The Grand Army parade in st. Louis
whl be operated by means of many tele-
phone stations placed along the route.
TIE socialists of America are holding
a convention at Buffalo. The attendance
is significantly small.
A SAN FRANCISCO Jewish.l and syndicate,
representing $6,OOO,000,1s reported, will
operate at San Jose shortly.
THE fall of meteor in New Brunswick,
near the Maine border, recently reported,
is said to have been fabrication.
INTIMATIoN has been received from
British sources that par will be given for
the bonds of the Red River Valley road
MONDAY three steamers arrived at New
York with $685. 900 in gold on board.
GEORGE W. TITLow, a Baltimore grain
dealer, suspended payments Monday. He
is "lorg" on 100000 bushels of wheat.
IT is stated that Gen. Roger A. Pryor
has decided to undertake the case of the
condemned anarchists.
CHICAGO capitalists have bought the
Vermillion iron range in Minnesota,
which produced $40, 600 tons of ore last
year.
A RATTLEsNAKE seven feet long with
thirty three rattles and a button was
killed in the San Anderas, New Mexico.
The buttons are to be exhibited during
the fair.
PRINCE WILLIAM, son of Crown Prince
Frederick William, and his wife, Princess
Augusta Victoria, laun ched the new Ger
man iron-clad Princess Wilhelm at Kiel
to-day.
THE Mayors of all the French cities
have been again ordered to prepare lists
of all Germans in their districts for the
use of the ministry of the interior.
g INDIANS at the Standing Rock Agency
complain of bad food and too many
whites. Chief Gaul wants to build
mounds on the border of his territory, to
keep out palefaces.
GOVERNOR Ross, of New Mexico, reports
the territory, owing to the imperfect man
nar of collecting taxes, is falling into
debt, but in all other regards a healthy
growth is apparent.
THE banking firm of Prince & Whitley,
of New York, has gone into liquidation
in order that the estate of the late VIM. R.
Travers might receive an interest in the
business.
J. c.. BEARDsLEE, q farmer of Rockfor d
Mich, died of hydrophobia, Wednesda y
He was bitten by mad dog several years
ago, and experienced no trouble with the
wound until Monday.
The celebration of independence day
in the City of Mexico on Friday was
great success. President Diaz read the
declaration, 10000 Mexican troops par
rade, and about 100000 people partici-
pated in the festivities.
DIR. LAWS, president of the Missouri
state university, has been finally expelled
from the prohibition party OF that state
because he owns hotel in Kansas City
in which bar is carried on.
M. D. BALL, United States Attorney for
Alaska, died on the steamer Ancon, while
en- route for Seattle. W. T. His body was
shipped to Washington Tuesday evening,
for burial.
In the United States Circuit at Detroit,
Mich, Tuesday, Mrs. Sarah May, got
judgment against Saginaw County for
$1,000, for violation of the May jail
lock patent. This was test case, and
many counties had pooled to fight the
patent.
CONGRESSMAN W. W. Morrow, in making
a statement to Secretary Bayard on the
murder of Lem Baldwin, superintendent
of mines owned in Durango by Ameri-
cans, says the crime was committed by
Mexicans, and that such outrages are in
creasiug, and becoming more inhuman
and barbarous.
RUSSIA is considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of enacting law providing that children
born in Russia of naturalized German
parents shall be Regarded as Russian
subjects from birth instead of from the
time they attain their majority, as at
present, thus making them liable for
military service.
The monster steam hammer of Krupp,
the German gun-maker, is nearly 200 feet
nigh. The hammer falls OF block of
metal weighing 10000 tons. One of the
cross pieces bears an inscription which,
translated, reads: "Let her go, Fritz"
All access to the works is forbidden. The
horsepower employed is equal to 10000.
THE Austrian military maneuvers at
Deva, in Pennsylvania, were concluded
yesterday. Emperor Francis Joseph
warmly thank ediArchduke Albrecht, inspe-
tor general of the army, and all the COM
manders present for the splendid proofs
which he said the maneuvers afforded of
the high state of perfection displayed in
the training of the army.
AT Rochester, n. Y, the Rev. j. A.
Copeland caused a sensation Tuesday
night by appearing at the Union Labor
Cllb meeting. He avowed himself for
the George movement. Hs had been a
Prohibitionist and was a candidate of
that party for congress.
PAT KILLEN arrived at his home in
Minneapolis Thursday from trip east.
He says arrangements are In progress for
a tweive-round contest with John L. Sui
livan, to take place within six weeks,
either at Minneapolis or Butte City, Par
son Davies to manage the affair.
AN attachment has been obtained
against the New York property of the
National Rubber Company. of Bristol, R.
l.. on claim of S2,117 in favor of Har-
rison Bros. & Co. 1t is reported that
the company lost $4,000 last year by
carrying large stock and the advance
in raw material.